Helen Clark
Statesman
1950-02-26
Quotes by Helen Clark
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Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.
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I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
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Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
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I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.
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If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.
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It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
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Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.
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Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
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